I graduated from Oberlin last May. The last time before this they won a game was my freshman year, 15-14 vs. I forget who. The other team had like 97 players, and we only had 24. WHat better excuse do you need to have a hellacious party than wins like this?

I used to live in a dorm next to the athletic field. Once on a Saturday, I wandered over to the field to see what was going on. There were 50-100 people in the stands. Most of them seemed to be the players' girlfriends.

At halftime, a drunken bass-drum-and-kazoo 'marching band' straggled onto the field to bump into each other and perform a reggae piece or something equally inappropriate. I don't think they won that day.

The College used to tout its football prowess in its brochures by noting that John Heisman (of the Heisman Trophy) used to coach at Oberlin. Granted, this was in the mid-1800s, but who's counting?

Yeah, would you believe that back in the day Oberlin's team won national championships? And as recently as... 1956 they beat (ok, due to a need to forfeit the game in order to get back to school in time for classes, they lost) the Michigan Wolverines? Boy do times change hehe.

I went to high school about five miles from Oberlin. Not a bad town, but the college kinda sucked. You can actually major in ANYTHING you want at Oberlin. You can name a major and they'll build a course around it. I've heard of people who majored in Humor and Drew Barrymore. No joke. There's someone walking around who paid 80,000 for a Bachelors in Drew Barrymore.

You guys want to know about Oberlin? Well, I don't know where Bear went, but since I graduated from there in May, I guess I know a little. I think now to get a bachelors in whatever you want, you have to pay around $130,000. And I believe you can get a Masters in education there, and also possibly some sort of graduate degree in the Conservatory (which is or was #3 in the nation, if you like rankings). The place is very liberal on the whole, but also quite diverse.

And yes, there is the possibility of a custom major, but it isn't often utilized. I bet the Drew Barrymore person is a lawyer or some such now. There are classes there run by students in the Experimental College (ExCo) ranging from Conversational Klingon (two of my friends taught this) to the Porn Exco (yes, I think they made porn, I missed it though). Basically anything imaginable.

The school rocks, I miss it sorely, have many friend there still. If you want to know anything else, just post here. I'm sure myself or some other Obie will splurt out further info. Don't forget that Ben and Jerry's ice cream was thought up in the town, among other things. Speaking of which I'm hungry...

Kenyon's campus is older than God. It was built in the early 1800's before Ohio was a state by a bishop named Philander Chase. It was an all-boy's school up until the 1960's. It is a liberal-arts college to the extreme, many of the majors here are English and Poli-Sci. Kenyon has an excellent English program. Activist groups run rampant here, as do frat houses (go figure) There is a copius amount of partying here. Umm... as I think of more I'll post it. Oh yeah. Paul Newman went here.